Albie Sachs Quotes
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
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But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.
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I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.
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If you want a future, darling, Why don't you get a past?
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Then there are the 22 million Americans on food stamps. And of course there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting Social Security. The greatest generation rewarded itself with a pretty big meal.
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You need to create a place where young students can flesh out their business plans and further develop their research projects and then have a fund to help students get started in their businesses.
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Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.
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I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.
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If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
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That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?
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Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.
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Even if we accepted the health implications of pollution and the impact on global warming, from a simple space management perspective, mobility will eventually collapse in cities that give priority to the car.
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Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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Primitive does not mean stupid.
